Ontario Celebrates Open Access

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Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute Dr. Harold Varmus will offer welcoming remarks. Varmus has been an unparalleled leader in promoting Open Access in a succession of key roles – from introducing the topic of wider access and launching PubMed Central to increase public access to the literature as the Director of the National Institutes of Health, to helping to found the Public Library of Science, one of the world’s leading open-access publishers.

Varmus will be joined by Dr. Cameron Neylon, a Senior Scientist at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, biochemist, and author of the widely read “Science in the Open” blog. Neylon will highlight the kinds of scientific advances Open Access can facilitate, and discuss current examples along with future opportunities. A host of leading researchers from around the globe will also add their voices to the event.

Canada's granting agencies have undertaken varying strategies to address open access. Panelists from CIHR, SSHRC and NSERC will share their agencies' approaches to open access. Agencies with an open access mandate will describe their process and address issues that they encountered along the way. Those without a mandate will share how their agency views open access and describe initiatives that have been undertaken to support open access.

Speaker Biographies:

SSHRC: Craig McNaughton is Director of SSHRC’s Knowledge Mobilization and Program Integration Division. He began working with SSHRC in 2000, first managing Interdisciplinary & Multidisciplinary Studies within the Standard Research Grants program and then a series of pilot programs in strategic research, including Aboriginal Research; Research/Creation in the Fine Arts; and the International Opportunities Fund. Earlier, he worked as executive director for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities (1990-95) and the Movement for Canadian Literacy (1996-99). Mr. McNaughton holds a BA Hons from Queen’s University in History and Religion and an MA from Carleton University in International Affairs.

NSERC: Monique Zaloum is a Senior Policy Advisor with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Her work focuses on research and higher education trends in the Canadian and international S&T landscape, including open access and data stewardship issues. Prior to joining NSERC seven years ago, Monique worked in environmental management and natural resource planning with the Alberta Department of Environment. She holds a Master’s degree in Ecology from McGill University.

CIHR: Andrea Smith is a Manager with the Knowledge Translation (KT) Branch at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She is the strategic lead on CIHR’s Partnerships for Health System Improvement and Evidence on Tap programs, focusing on bringing research evidence to the health services and policy decision-making arena. She is currently the lead on CIHR’s Policy on Access to Research Outputs and was involved in the launch of PubMed Central Canada, a digital repository of CIHR-funded research publications. She is also responsible for a number of knowledge translation capacity development initiatives, including the publication of a guide to integrated and end-of-grant KT. Prior to joining CIHR, Andrea worked in the area of knowledge exchange and capacity development with the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation.

Tuesday 19 October 2010
OPEN SCHOLARSHIP - WHAT IT MEANS TO FACULTY AND STUDENTS
11:30am - 5:00pm

Student Perspectives:
What it Means to be an Open Scholar
Speaker: Stian Haklev, BA (UTSC), MA (OISE U of T), PhD student (OISE U of T)

Time: 11:30am to 12:30pm

Location: UTSC Council Chambers, Room AA160

This exciting presentation will focus on what it means to be an Open scholar/researcher. Stian, a UofT doctoral student, will discuss his experience using the wealth of OA journals and other resources in his research. He will share his knowledge of other scholars who have made their research process open, using Web 2.0 tools like Twitter and Academia to network with researchers, disseminating their finished product in a range of open network environments. This presentation will appeal to any students who wish to participate in the open international environment of the research enterprise.

This event will be webcast and archived.

Lunch/Conversation Break: 12:15pm - 12:30pm

(Please RSVP to monroy@utsc.utoronto.ca by October 13th if you plan to attend the lunch.)

Global Open Educational Resources and the University of Toronto as a Multicultural Institution

You might have heard about MIT OpenCourseWare, but did you know that there are 12,000 Chinese courses online, 460 Indonesian textbooks, or 5000 hours of video from one single Pakistani university? This presentation will take you on a whirlwind tour of global open educational resources, and give a sense of the diversity of projects that exist, and how they have developed. The University of Toronto is a very multicultural institution in a global city: how can these resources be used by individual students to enrich their learning – and how can these students and teachers contribute to resources in their own languages? The presentation will also introduce the Peer2Peer University, a global online platform for learners to come together and create study groups around open educational resources.

Learn how UTSC faculty members in different disciplines have pursued different routes to openness in their own research and/or teaching. Panelists will discuss their own experiences on topics such as author’s rights, licensing options, open textbooks, open courseware, institutional repositories and self-archiving.

This event will be webcast and archived.

GLOBAL OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AS A MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTION

You might have heard about MIT OpenCourseWare, but did you know that there are 12,000 Chinese courses online, 460 Indonesian textbooks, or 5000 hours of video from one single Pakistani university? This presentation will take you on a whirlwind tour of global open educational resources, and give a sense of the diversity of projects that exist, and how they have developed. The University of Toronto is a very multicultural institution in a global city: how can these resources be used by individual students to enrich their learning – and how can these students and teachers contribute to resources in their own languages? The presentation will also introduce the Peer2Peer University, a global online platform for learners to come together and create study groups around open educational resources.

Join UT Mississauga student researchers during Open Access Week for an Open Access presentation, drinks and hors d'oeuvres sponsored by the UT Mississauga Library.

This exciting presentation will focus on what it means to be an Open scholar/researcher. Stian, a UofT doctoral student, will discuss his experience using the wealth of OA journals and other resources in his research. He will share his knowledge of other scholars who have made their research process open, using Web 2.0 tools like Twitter and Academia to network with researchers, disseminating their finished product in a range of open network environments. This presentation will appeal to any students who wish to participate in the open international environment of the research enterprise.

Do you have questions about the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Policy on Access to Research Outputs? How about questions on PMC Canada's manuscript submission process? Do you know the difference between PubMed Central Canada and PubMed Central? Here's your chance to get answers to these questions. Speakers from NRC's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) and CIHR will provide an overview of CIHR's policy, PMC Canada, and how to submit manuscripts, followed by a question and answer session.

Please join us for a group viewing. No registration necessary.

WHAT BILL C-32 MISSES: COPYRIGHT IN ACADEMIC LIFE

Speaker: Dr. Margaret Ann Wilkinson, Professor, Faculty of Law & Information Science, The University of Western Ontario

Thursday 21 October 2010
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN OPEN SCHOLAR AND THE FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS

Speaker: Stian Haklev, BA (UTSC), MA (OISE), PhD candidate (OISE)

Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: OISE Library (252 Bloor Street West), Ground Floor

As scholars, we want to make our work widely known, and to receive recognition for our achievements. As educational researchers, we have a special interest in making our research available to those who can practically benefit from it: teachers, school boards, parents and politicians. Open Access to our research publications is an important first step, but we can go much further than this. Scholars in all fields are experimenting with many innovative ways of sharing their research, both during the research process, and afterward. This presentation will introduce a number of case studies, discuss advantages and challenges in making your research more open, and outline trends in the future of scholarly communications.

This event will be webcast and archived at: . (RealPlayer required for viewing).

The University of Guelph will be celebrating Open Access week. We will use the orange theme colour to create a banner on our homepage. We will put up a display in the library about Open Access. Team members will deliver lunchtime workshops on various OA topics (such as OA 101, the Google Book Settlement, Creative Commons Basics etc). We will also be co-hosting a round table event with the organizers of the CUEXpo.ca. This event will take place in the community of Guelph. Based on the SPARC Voices of Open Access Videos, our event will include 5 speakers: Chief Librarian, Faculty Member, Graduate Student, Funder Expert, and Community Practitioner. Each will speak about the benefits of Open Access from their perspective.